December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Today's topic: Ellery Queen.                         

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Frank Sinatra                                                                                            

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Henny Youngman                                                                                               

Bandleader Cab Calloway performs at the Club Zanzibar in New York City. The program is interrupted by a bulletin from CBS radio news announcing the end of World War ll. Comment from CBS newsman Robert Trout.                

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Brace Beemer who portrayed The Lone Ranger on radio.                                   

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Sonja Henie                                                                                    

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Jack Benny Show.                                                                        

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Orson Welles                                                                                                                                     

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Annual Christmas Show                                                                                                                                            

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Frank Leahy                                                                                                                                                     

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Former heavyweight champion James Braddock.                                                                                                                                                              

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: William Powell subbing for Bill Stern.                                                                         

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: Doak Walker (football player)                                                                                                       

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: The Four Horsemen                                                                                                                  

 TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. 

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

 In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and  the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. 

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” 

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” 

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. 

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. 

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs  were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent  the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. 

Guests: General Lucius Clay, now home in US after Berlin siege.
He discusses pull out possibilities in Berlin. Discussion of Bob Hope Christmas show as great moral boosters for servicemen. Clay also talks about his forthcoming retirement after 30 years of military service and soldiers contributions to the rebuilding of Germany. 
Also, Tex McCrary, in a 12-25-48 interview, talks with Irving Berlin about "The Berlin Diary." Berlin sings "God Bless America" in Berlin with Bob Hope. Says he wrote the song for the Boy and Girl Scouts of America. Interview with Berlin's wife, Ellin Berlin. 
Jinx interviews General Clay concerning the Berlin airlift. 80,000 German children given a Christmas party. Jinx also talks with 14-year-old Doris who describes her Christmas presents.                                                        

 TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. 

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

 In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and  the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. 

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” 

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” 

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. 

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. 

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs  were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent  the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. 

Guest: General Lucius D. Clay talks about Berlin crisis just passed. Also, Jackie Robinson tells Senate investigating Committee his views on baseball commissioner and the Negro fighting for his country. Comment on Paul Robeson. Newsman interviews 88-year-old Grandma Moses. She is going to receive achievement award from President Truman. She talks about her paintings as well.                                             

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Guest: George Raft                                                                                                                           

December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956

The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. 

Today: Boris Karloff                                       

Commentary on the firing of General MacArthur, Representative Joseph Martin calls on General MacArthur to come to the US to tell story, also calls for possible impeachment of President Truman, Senator James Nolan calls situation "Far East Munich." Senator Robert Kerr supports Truman, supports all out war with Red China.
Secretary Dean Acheson accused of dominating US policy and defense, Senator John Sparkman says General MacArthur lacks understanding of situation, Senator William Jenner claims firing gives Russians a great victory, President Truman chooses General Matthew Ridgeway to replace MacArthur. General ran Fleet to replace Ridgeway in 8th Army Command.                 

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Guests: The DeMarco Sisters, Sonny King, Tommy Farrell, Rosette Shaw. Cameo appearance by Tony Curtis. 


                                       

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Guests: Janis Paige, Danny Arnold, Dick Stabile and his Orchestra,
cameos by Tony Martin and Joe Louis.


This was the final show of the season. 

                                       

General Mark Clark comments on Communist Chinese.             

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to be executed on June 19th for spying.  

John Cameron Swayze reports. 

 



                                                                                                                                      

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

News highlights: The murder of Bobby Greenlease. Robert Greenlease Jr. was a six year-old boy who was kidnapped and murdered on September 28th, 1953. His father, Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Sr, was a multi-millionaire auto dealer. The kidnappers ransom payment was at that time the largest in American history. Bobby's kidnappers, Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady had no intention of returning the little boy to his family but instead shot and killed him with a .38 caliber revolver. Both perpetrators were found guilty and sentenced to death. They were 
executed in a Missouri gas chamber in December, 1953.
In other news; The Geneva Conference of 1954, and the Harry Truman-Joe McCarthy feud. McCarthy accused Truman of protecting accused Soviet spy Harry Dexter White. Also included, the news with Lowell Thomas, and the Fulton Lewis Jr. newscast.




                                                                                                                                                                

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.

 Most COLGATE COMEDY SHOWS were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 
 Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR." A Sunday evening variety hour. Most shows were comedy variety hours with guest hosts. A few comedy plays and musicals were also televised. 

Ethel Merman recreates her starring role in ANYTHING GOES, loosely based adaptation of the 1934 Cole Porter musical.             

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

News highlights of the day with host John Cameron Swayze. A young right fielder for the Milwaukee Braves hits the first of his 755 career home runs playing against the St. Louis Cardinals on this day. His name: Henry (Hank) Aaron. 



                                                                                                            

May 3,1948 - April 13,1962

Douglas Edwards with the News
Original title: CBS Television News

On May 3, 1948, Douglas Edwards began "The CBS-TV News," a regular 15-minute nightly newscast later named "Douglas Edwards with the News." It was broadcast nationally weeknights at 7:30 PM (EST).

This was the first regularly scheduled weekday television news program in American history.

It should be noted that prior to the historic premiere May 3, 1948 weekday CBS-TV News broadcast there were other CBS TV News broadcasts and anchors dating back to Larry LeSuer, doing a 15 minute newscast beginning in June 1946 on Thursday evenings and Saturday evenings with also Tom O’Connor handling the weekend newscast as well. 

On November 30, 1956, the first network news show to be videotaped for rebroadcast to the West Coast was achieved. This video tape is not known to exist today as is most of all of Douglas' news broadcasts, in any broadcast form. 

On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards as CBS's evening newscaster. Douglas Edwards continued to broadcast the local WCBS nightly weekly newscast. He also did a five-minute daytime newscast until April 1, 1988.


Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine begins. The first shot is administered in Fairfax County, Virginia.     

Douglas Edwards reporting.                                

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles accuses Communist China of sending combat troops to Indo-China to train Viet Minh guerrillas.

 



                                                                                                            

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards                             

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

The Sophades Earthquake marks the beginning in a series of quakes in Central Greece. 

 



                                                                                                                         

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards           

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

World, and National news and sports with John Cameron Swayze.

 



                                                                                                                         

News with a young David Brinkley. Brought to you by Camel Cigarettes.                                   

The Viet Minh scored their final victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in the war that began in 1946.    

Host: Douglas Edwards                      

Continuation of News for this day with anchor David Brinkley



                                                                                                

World and National news.

Host: Douglas Edwards.             

Bill Vukovich wins his second straight Indy 500.

Host: Douglas Edwards                        

Senators Stuart Symington and Joseph  McCarthy are featured.

Host: Douglas Edwards.          

Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower honors Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, at the National Association Of Colored Woman's Convention. 

Host: Douglas Edwards                                                  

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Milton Berle is host at the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of the Friar's Club, a fraternal organization of men in show business.


                                       

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 


Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW. Dietz-Schwartz musical about the Governor of a Spanish colony in 1812 who cannot resist the ladies.                          

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. 
Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW." A group of married women invite soldiers from a nearby Army camp to their homes. Based on the 1941 Cole Porter musical. No close otherwise complete.             

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955. 
Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Presented on "COLGATE COMEDY SHOW." A group of married women invite soldiers from a nearby Army camp to their homes. Based on the 1941 Cole Porter musical. 
Among the original songs of the original show are: "Everything I Love," "Farming," "Let's Not Talk About Love," "You Irritate Me So," "Lay Needs a Rest," "A Little Rumba Numba," "Ace in the Hole," "I Hate You Darling," and "Rub Your Lamp." 
No close otherwise complete.                                       

September 10, 1950-December 25, 1955.
 Most shows were comedy-variety hours with guest hosts Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Eddie Cantor, Donald O'Connor, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, & Gordon MacRae. Starting in the Fall of 1952, occasional revues and musicals were broadcast. In the summer of 1955, the name of the series was changed to "Colgate Variety Hour," and when Colgate dropped its sponsorship, the show continued in January 1956 for one half season as the "NBC Comedy Hour." Woody Allen was one of the writers. 

Guest host: Guy Lombardo. 


                   

    A 16 & 1/2 hour live telethon for Cereral Palsey telecast from South Florida on CBS affiliate station WTVJ Channel 4. 

Hosted by Jack Paar and Toni Gilman. Jack Paar would go on one year later to host THE TONIGHT SHOW.

 This TV audio air check counts down the last minutes of the telethon which raised $400,000. Jack Paar mentions how special this cause has been by the good people in the viewing audience, and in the studio. He emotionally thanks all who have participated, including Bob Keeshan (whom we hear talking to a youngster) who only three months prior began his children's show CAPTAIN KANGAROO which would go on to become the longest running kids show in television history (29 years). 

The CP telethon began, Saturday night January 4th at 10:30pm and concluded Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm. After sign-off the announcer mentions a long list of names of all the CBS shows which were pre-empted during the telethon's broadcast.  


                

    A 16 & 1/2 hour live telethon for Cereral Palsey telecast from South Florida on CBS affiliate station WTVJ Channel 4. 

Hosted by Jack Paar and Toni Gilman. Jack Paar would go on one year later to host THE TONIGHT SHOW.

 This TV audio air check counts down the last minutes of the telethon which raised $400,000. Jack Paar mentions how special this cause has been and the good people can do with their donations. He emotionally thanks all who have participated, including Bob Keeshan (whom we hear talking to a youngster) who only three months prior began his children's show CAPTAIN KANGAROO which would go on to become the longest running kids show in television history (29 years). 

The CP telethon began, Saturday night January 14th at 10:30pm and concluded Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm. After sign-off the announcer mentions a long list of names of all the CBS shows which were pre-empted during the telethon's broadcast.  

Duplicate of #10172. 

Co-hosts: Jack Paar and Toni Gilman. 


                

September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957

A sixty-minute comedy show starring Sid Caesar. Most of Sid's old gang of regulars from "Your Show Of Shows" returned. They included Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.

This episode: Tribute To George Gershwin.

Nanette Fabray, others.                                                                                          

NEWS ANCHOR 

-WCBS TV local News- November 1, 1954- May 27,1960,
replacing Robert Trout, and replaced by Prescott Robinson.

ABC TV World News - June 4, 1962-January 29, 1965, replaced by Peter Jennings.   

A report on the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign. Also, the United Nations debate on the Suez Canal crisis. 
 

Ron Cochran, a former television and radio newsman worked with
CBS and ABC as a television anchor news journalist.
In the early 1960's, Cochran was an early evening news anchor for the ABC network, most remembered for covering the ABC TV network news related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963.

Previously, he was the host of ten minute evening news programs, Monday thru Saturday on WCBS-TV in New York from 1954 to 1960.

NOTE: Almost all of Ron Cochran's newscasts are NON extant in any broadcast form. 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

February 14th, 1949-October 26th, 1956

A fifteen-minute nightly newscast hosted by John Cameron Swayze. It was replaced on October 29th, 1956 by the Huntley-Brinkley Report. 

Sportscaster reporter Phil Rizzuto reports on game 5 of the 1956 World Series in which the Yankees Don Larsen pitched a perfect game. 

                  Broadcasting career
Phil Rizzuto had options following his release by the Yankees, on Old Timer's Day, August 25, 1956 including a player contract from the Cardinals and a minor league offer from the Dodgers. But Rizzuto, who had filled in for the New York Giants' wraparound fifteen minute post game show hosted by Frankie Frisch beginning on September 22, 1956 following Frisch's heart attack (August 9th right after NY Giant win over the Philadelphia Phillies), received a favorable response. With his eye on a post-playing career, Rizzuto submitted an audition tape to the Baltimore Orioles. The Yankees' sponsor, Ballantine Beer, took notice, and insisted that the team hire Rizzuto as an announcer for the 1957 season. General manager George Weiss was obliged to fire Jim Woods, who had only been with the Yankees for four years, to make room for Rizzuto in the booth.   Yankees shortstop Phil Rizzuto was so popular with the fans that they couldn't let him go after his retirement in 1956. After announcing his retirement, he signed on as the Yankees announcer on December 18th, 1956, a position he held for 40 years.                                           

A report on game 6 of the 1956 World Series in which the Dodgers tied the fall classic at three games apiece. Jackie Robinson's final base hit of his Major League career wins the game 1-0, in the 10th inning, for Brooklyn. President Eisenhower attacks presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson for discussion of the hydrogen bomb halt and his plan to end the draft.